Google Summer of Code™, our flagship program to introduce college and university students to open source software development, is now in full swing. Over the past four years, we've paired nearly 2,500 student "graduates" with more than 2,500 mentors from industry to academia, with some spectacular results: millions of lines of source code produced and over $15M USD (almost $22M AUD) in funding provided to open source development. We're particularly excited by the social ties our students participants form through the course of the program - we've connected people in more than 98 countries, and hope to bring people from even more places into the Google Summer of Code community this year.

We're accepting student applications now through April 3rd. For more details, including how to apply, please see the Google Open Source Blog.